Vancouver school trustees will consider a motion Monday evening that could lead to the creation of a student trustee position on the board of education next year.

The motion is to be presented to the management coordinating committee by trustee Mike Lombardi, who hopes the board will approve a pilot project for the 2013-14 school year. It calls for trustees, district staff and students to develop a policy proposal for the board to consider at a June meeting.

Lombardi had hoped the provincial government would amend the B.C. School Act to allow student trustees on boards of education, but that hasn’t happened. A bid last month to have the B.C. School Trustees’ Association lobby for this change failed.

But Lombardi isn’t giving up. “We need to get the ball rolling,” he said Friday. Read my story here.

Silas White, chairman of the Sunshine Coast board of education, said trustees in that district are considering similar action.